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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: As the first tuning you learn when you start playing the guitar, ‘standard’ ...

I've always been frightened of alternative tunings. Not of playing in them, which I'd never even tried, but the whole idea of them. I've spent my whole life in guitar in the standard tuning and I ...

Any musician worth his/her credit knows that accurate tuning is a given. It's a crucial starting point to playing any instrument at home, on the job, in the studio, or on the road, and an ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

Tune, strum, solo, and shred with apps designed to help you get the most out of your six-string. With a tuner, a metronome, a chord finder, and scale guides, this app is a must-have for every guitar ...

If you play guitar or another string instrument, one of the thankless tasks you do before you play—and in between songs—is getting your instrument in tune. There are several ways you can do this: You ...

Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but listening to her unique brand of dynamic and percussive folk/punk/rock songs, it can certainly seem that way. What is clear, however, is that ...